Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Right, this was too easy to be true. I now did:
>
> qemu -hda /dev/hda -snapshot
>
> and booted from the hd using the installed grub and the same kernel and it
> _didn't_ boot showing again "no setup signature found... "

Okay, so it's an algorithmic problem.  This is quite important to know.

Is /boot a separate partition on your disk by any chance?  Either way, 
this means we can use qemu to debug this, which will make it a lot easier.

This is what I'd like you to do next:

- run qemu in one window with the -S -s options.
- in another window, do:

	gdb
	target remote localhost:1234
	set architecture i8086
	disp/i ($cs << 4)+$eip
	br *0x10200
	br *0x20200
	br *0x30200
	br *0x40200
	br *0x50200
	br *0x60200
	br *0x70200
	br *0x80200
	br *0x90200
	c

	# ... hopefully you're now stopped at a jump instruction
	p/x $ds
	
	# Hopefully this is showing, say, 0x9000 if you're stopped
	# at 0x90200

	# Where X is the first digit of the address stopped at:
	dump memory setup.dump 0xX0000 0xX8000


Please send me setup.dump plus your vmlinuz file.

Thanks,

	-hpa
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